More Gunning Decoys

Joe Friday

Joe Friday

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Looking at the foamer tutorial made me want to post up some of my gunners..

Here are some of my crude gunning decoys, made from wood scraps, and from crab pots I scavanged from the marshes. There is one flatty decoy here--made from a cedar board with a small cedar keel. The big round decoy is made from a tupelo scrap with a pine bottom board and pine keel. The crab pot decoys all have pine bottom boards. I used Gorilla Glue to secure the bottom boards.

All my heads are simple 1 x 4 pine, secured with screws and gorilla glue.

These decoys are painted with acrylic except for the big round one. I used a mix of acrylic and oils.

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Joe,

Love the decoys you have created they will hunt!..The flatties you made reminded me of some flatty silo decoys I made in about 2003 by combining the flat top profile with a flat side profile of the birds (old decoy design)...Then incorporating two hinges and a clasp mechanism to allow the side view to stay up. Once the clasp was removed the decoys would lay semi-flat...I used them regularly hunting the Maumee River outside of Fort Wayne where I had land owners permission to hunt all of his property along the river...It was easy for me to throw a dozen in a back-pack and walkin to hunt any of the river section he owned...I linseed oiled them, painted them a black and come back with tan paint to make some feather tips throughout the birds...Very crude but were very effective when placed outside of the main current in the slack waters. Hunted one season in Louisiana when I lived in Monroe with them in green timber down on Beuof WMA (Spelling). Easy packing!!!!

Regards,
Kristan
 
Really like the flatties, how did they ride in the water if it was a bit rough?
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Hi Ian, I've not hunted that decoy in choppy water, but my other, thicker ones seem to do just fine. They are lively and visible I think. I've no complaints.
 
I really like the flattie. I especially like the way the paint is blended where the grey on the back meets the black.....

John Bourbon
 
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